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The Return: A Novel of Prophecy and Mysticism

by Dr. Ian Gordon

402 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #07-0776; ISBN 1-4251-2420-8; US$28.00, C$32.20, EUR21.83, £14.47

Religious and New Age prophecies are woven into a novel of contemporary cataclysm. New mystics search for intervention. But who will come: Christ? Extraterrestrials? Angelic forces? A challenging scenario!

About the Book

This is a time of a New Mysticism when prophecy and predictions emerge in many communities - both inside and outside the conventional religions.

The Christian church senses the maelstrom of prophecy about the Return of Christ but seems too shackled by conventions to meet the challenge of the present. In Islam there are miracles as a new prophet brings revival. He proclaims revelations from the Angels about an imminent Return - perhaps of the Twelfth Iman or Mohammed or even God.

In Israel a young Cantor is recognized as a Prophet from the great traditions, like a new Samuel, and reminds the Jews of a promised Divine Intervention at the time of their greatest need.

Outside the great religions, psychics and prophets in other cultures sense a new influence: an Extraterrestrial presence.

But in common among all those communities and cultures is a rampaging conviction: Prophecy is about to be fulfilled! The Return is imminent!

There are those who know that Planet Earth is a Barometer of Balance - that it bears the consequences of Humanity's behaviour and demands resolution. Its predicted convulsions affect many countries as earthquakes, volcanoes and solar storms seek to readjust the pressures and tensions which the Earth carries. Not even the solar system is free from the destructive energies which threaten the planet. Amidst the world's catastrophes, major political players seek to outmaneuver one another and seize the opportunities created by crises. Move and counter move centre on The Middle East - and Israel.

In the emerging crises, psychics cooperate with scientists, preachers and politicians who search the meaning of the Rocks of Testimony which arrive like so many tablets of stone throughout the Earth. The time is ripe for intervention: but who or what is the prophesied Return?

About the Author

Ian Gordon has spent all of his professional life involved with education. After teaching in Victorian secondary schools for about twelve years, he moved to lecturing teachers colleges and Monash University. After some years as a curriculum consultant to schools, his special interests in curriculum development and evaluation led to senior roles in the Curriculum and Research Branch in Victoria, of which he became head for about five years.

While teaching he wrote a textbook published by Longmans and several children's novels published by McGraw Hill Australia. His writing for teachers was extensively published through the Curriculum and Research Branch in Victoria, mainly as discussion papers or significant reports.

Special interests over several years in psychic research and spiritual phenomena led to publication of articles in national magazines. He is also the author of The Andronicus Tapes, a book about psychic phenomena, published in Melbourne, Australia in 1983. Well known for his association with the New Age movement, for many years he conducted workshops in most Australian capital cities. He produced and featured in two documentaries about psychic phenomena.

As a young man he was active in Christian churches and a qualified preacher with an in depth knowledge of Biblical prophecies.

For thirty years he has had a special interest in UFO research and reporting.

These interests have provided a unique expertise to create The Return, a novel of prophecy and mysticism based on an evidential background.

Ian Gordon is now retired and actively following his interest in writing. As well as recently completing The Return, he has also completed a novel for young adults entitled Aliens in the Warrumbungles. Further writing is being planned.

Ian Gordon's qualifications are BA, TSTC, M.Ed, PhD, and formely MACE.